Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor in Swindon

Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire + Fully Remote + Frequent Travel to Sites

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Company Car + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

The role

As a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor, you’ll step away from the tools and into a career that shapes the next generation of Army vehicle mechanics. You’ll use your hands‑on expertise to coach, guide and assess learners working across the British Army’s extensive fleet from quad bikes and generators to battle tanks and heavy artillery. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on national defence while advancing your own career in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities

• Visiting learners in their workplace to deliver coaching, assessment and support
• Monitoring progress and ensuring timely completion of all programme components
• Advising learners on portfolio building and meeting programme requirements
• Recording and tracking learner progress in line with reporting processes
• Motivating and guiding apprentices through their qualification journey

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role. The role is based remotely, with travel required to sites across the Southwest including but not limited to Tidworth, Lyneham, Warminster, Colerne, Larkhill, Bulford and Wiltshire. The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience

• Considerable experience as a qualified assessor
• Strong background in a relevant industry environment
• Good understanding of work‑based learning programmes

Qualifications

• Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (or equivalent)
• GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English
• Vehicle Mechanic Level 3 Qualification (minimum Level 3)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC), Enhanced DBS, Child Barring Service and Adult Barring Service security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.